> installed two times Red Hat in this notebook during this week, and no> freeze was suffered during the whole installation process, which is a> process that as you know requires almost an hour to complete.> > I´m just asking why the kernel doesn´t freeze during the installation> process (which it is supposed to run Linux I suspect :) ) and just> after booting and typing some commands in init 1 mode, it freezes;> quite strange.

At least one possible cause is that the runtime kernels will use APM powermanagement and other facilities that the install kernel intentionally avoidsbecause a tiny number of boxes have it broken.